Papalo/Quilquiña/Papaloquelite  Papaloquelite is a fabulous ancient Mexican herb. The name comes from the word papalotl, Nahuatl for butterfly. Unusual, piquant, fresh green leaves have a...

Cucamelon - The Doll House Melon These tiny, 1" light-green fruits with darker mottling look like watermelons for a dollhouse. The flesh is white, crisp, and crunchy with a slight lemony tartness...

Epazote - The Magical Herb This annual Mexican herb has a pungent aroma, spear-shaped, deeply toothed leaves and green flowers. It is also known as Wormseed, American Wormseed, Mexican Tea or Herba...

Culantro - Perennial Coriander Also called long coriander or Mexican coriander in English and samat, cilantro habanero, cilantro ancho, cilantro cimarron, alcapate, or recao in Spanish, it is...

100 Plants to Feed the Bees How can we – as home gardeners – help the bees? Gardeners are eager to save honey bees, bumblebees, native bees, and other pollinators, but too often we don’t know how or...

Feed the Bees Seed Collection – A Pollinator Paradise in Your Garden “Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don’t they should, for their feet are dusted with the spices from a million flowers...

Why Use Herbs? Throughout the ages, plants have served a multitude of uses for human survival. Ethnobotany – the study of plant lore and agricultural customs – has provided us with rich evidence of...

Chiltepin Pepper - Mother of All Peppers Looking more like a small round berry than a chile, the Chiltepin – pronounced “chill tuh peen” – is one of the oldest of the very few remaining wild chiles...